An Examination of the Responsibility Model in a New Zealand Secondary School Physical Education Program

This study examined a six-month implementation of the Responsibility Model in a New Zealand secondary school. Data were collected through interviews, observations and student self-assessments. The implementation was found to be successful in developing positive, supportive and well-behaved classes in physical education. The majority of students developed a greater understanding of personal and social responsibility and became more personally and socially responsible in class. For most students, however, this understanding was firmly associated with physical education and they generally showed little understanding of the potential for the transfer of learning to other contexts.

The purpose of the current study was to explore social interaction preferences for learning in Physical Education (PE) among Spanish secondary students. The sample consists of 6,654 students (3,500 girls and 3,154 boys, aged 12-17 years) from public and private urban and rural schools in two...

This research shows two realities of the students of secondary. One of them has to do with his auto-concept and the other one with his intra-family relations. Inside this order of ideas, from both situations the relation is explained by the alterity. A survey was given with 50 items to 239...

The author discusses some of her bad experiences during her high school years. She relates the difficulties that she had faced during the days when her school friends would turn against her. She categorizes the students at her school as the goths, the sportos, the nice girls, the populars, the...

This study explores the learning of different forms of masculinity by young people from fifteen to twenty years old. The evidence was obtained from in-depth interviews with eighteen young people who represented, from diverse sexual, cultural, family, and corporal situations, different ways of...

The article notes the beginning of the U.S. National Learn & Serve Challenge Initiative in January 2010 and cites students at the Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma who have been engaged in service learning since 2006-2007.